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[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Protect Elon Musk at all cost.

[Dr. Willie J. Montague @WillieJMontague]

White liberals don't love Black people.

They love Black victims.

A Black man dead gets a mural. A Black man alive, conservative, and thinking for himself gets called a traitor.

They don't want you free. They want you useful.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 Anna Paulina Luna just dug up a FOUR-YEAR-OLD Charlie Kirk post and sent it straight to Dave Chappelle.

The timing is BRUTAL!

After Chappelle joked that he felt “better” since Kirk was murdered, Luna reminded him of what Kirk said back in May 2022.

When an armed man attacked Chappelle onstage, Kirk publicly defended him, condemning the decision not to pursue felony charges and warning about the normalization of political violence.

Kirk was defending Chappelle's right to perform without being attacked, regardless of their politics.

Four years later, Chappelle is joking about Kirk's assassination.

Luna didn't even bother writing an argument.

She just tagged Chappelle and let Kirk's old post speak for itself.

Writer: Oliver

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: I think the president took on something that other presidents have failed to do. Sometimes, when you do the right thing, you don't know whether it's popular or not, but it's still the right thing to do. Presidents are elected to take on the hard things, sometimes difficult things, but necessary things.

[Capitol Leaks @CapitolLeaks1]

🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has just signed a law BANNING Sharia Law from being enforced anywhere in the state of Florida

Sharia Law and Islamism are INCOMPATIBLE with America.

This should be a FEDERAL law.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Since I’m trending right now,

abolish property taxes.

[John Strand ⚔️ @JohnStrandUSA]

BREAKING: President Trump posts a breakdown of the strange “15% band” that was so strangely consistent across many states, whether red, purple, or blue

There are statistical anomalies that may be cause for concern

Are we ever going to have confidence in our elections?

[🐜🐝 Aunt B 4 America 🇺🇸 @AuntBee4America]

Trump is finally posting crumbs to let us know he's on it.

If fraud is found, the election won't get certified this time. Steven Miller, Markwane Mullin, and Pete Hegseth will shine a light on it once and for all. Then JD Vance is at the helm and won't certify it.

This is 2020 all over again. The stench of election fraud is real.

Fix our elections, or it will continue to be a problem and current voters will quit voting.

#AuditEveryState

@realDonaldTrump @FBIDirectorKash @JDVance @VP @SecRubio @marcorubio @FBI @StephenM @ICEgov @POTUS @ODNIgov @RealTomHoman @DHSgov @SusieWiles @DOJFraudDiv @DOJCrimDiv @TheJusticeDept @DoDeportations @HSI_HQ @DeptofWar @DOGE_DHS @elonmusk

[chessmate3 @dan25615750]

@0xZely 24 yo woman is not accountable bc the “frontal lobe is still developing” but children much younger than that can decide to transition!!???!

Such hypocrisy! Just like Trump has been called so many nasty names but he’s never had sex with an intern in the Oval Office!!!!

[MAZE @mazemoore]

I think a lot of people are completely wrong about what caused this midterm "blue tsunami."

I also believe that much of the hyperbolic, misguided analysis is coming from people who have hated Trump for a long time and who have been eagerly waiting with bated breath to declare the end of Trump and MAGA.

"It was obviously the Iran War. Trump didn't put America first. He betrayed America. It was gas prices. Only a fool would think otherwise."

Ok. Fair enough.

Allow me to present a hypothetical scenario. Let's pretend that Trump #2 never started the war with Iran.

Imagine if the price of gas was not around $4.00 a gallon but instead, let's say something low, assume $2.70 a gallon.

Pretend inflation was at a near perfect 2% for the year and GDP was cruising along at a 15 year high.

Assume wages were up and unemployment was at about a 50 year low.

No war. Great economy. That would have won Republicans the midterms right?

That would have prevented Democrats from flipping 41 House seats and 5 Governorships?

Those hypotheticals I listed above are what was happening in 2018 before the midterms. And yet, Democrats flipped 41 House seats and 7 Governorships during the midterms.

The Senate races turned out differently because Democrats were defending races all around the country in 2018. Republicans took back a couple red states. But the 2018 midterms were considered a massive blue wave for Democrats. No Iran War, economy booming, and still, that's how the midterms turned out.

Here's a fun fact. There were approximately 35.5 million Democrat votes during the 2014 midterms. There were approximately 61 million Democrat votes during the 2018 midterms.

25 million more Democrat votes during a booming economy. Do the current criticisms of Trump's second term explain that?

Trump went from 63 million votes in 2016, to 74 million in 2020, to 77 million in 2024. During each of his three midterms (2018, 2022, 2026), the Republican vote has increased substantially. But those increases do not compete with the additional 20 million Democrat vote bumps that happened in 2018, 2020, and 2026.

The question for Republicans becomes why do these gigantic Democrat vote bumps happen. How are they doing it? Is it because people hate Trump? They hate his policies? If those things were true, he would not continually gain support for himself and for the Republican Party.

Without even touching voter fraud, I believe that there is a clear, multi-faceted strategy that Democrats employed in 2018, 2020, and 2026 to drive insane amounts of people to polls, regardless of economic conditions. It's not difficult to identify, but Republicans don't talk about it and certainly don't have an answer for it. And Democrats can do it at will when needed.

Yes Trump won in 2024, but he was the only Republican that would have won and his win was helped by some unprecedented circumstances. Democrats were caught off guard. They did not make that mistake this time around.

Trump's second term has been far from perfect. Lots of mistakes and unforced errors. And once again, many terrible personnel choices by Trump.

That being said, I also believe that things could have been close to perfect right now and Republicans would have still gotten crushed during the midterms. Look at 2018.

Perception is everything. Republicans are not prepared or even willing to step on to the field with Democrats in this regard.

The Democrats are a cohesive, well oiled, united machine working in perfect harmony with the MSM. Together they can create and push any narrative they want to push. Republicans not only have no answer to this, they instead spend their time fighting each other.

Democrats don't argue about policy. They create mass hysteria and fear. It's all emotion. It's their entire platform. Most Americans don't like their policies. But they are playing a game in which policy and ideas and reality do not factor into the equation. And there are very clear strategies that they use to create this mass hysteria and to drive voter turnout.

Republicans are just going to keep helplessly watching this happen over and over again. They learned nothing from Trump's first term. The exact same lies, smears and hoaxes were used again, except this time around they replaced Russia with Epstein. Same game plan to the tee. For example, they created the same immigration hysteria that they did in 2018. Everything happened again.

Democrats were doing No Kings/Fight Fascism protests back in 2018 over immigration. People don't remember this but they were. I've posted videos about it. Bernie proudly declaring "No Kings." The immigration hysteria is especially effective at getting women riled up.

People don't remember Kamala Harris taking a ladder to climb a fence to break into an ICE facility in 2018 or Rachel Maddow fake crying on TV, AOC crying at the fence, or Oprah holding her book club at the border. Protesters literally glueing themselves to the ground in protest (over nothing). A Time Magazine cover with Trump menacingly towering of a crying migrant child. The audio recording of a baby crying that the MSM played on repeat for weeks before the midterms. The British PM Theresa May publicly condemning "kids in cages" (the same cages that Obama built and used).

Republicans just sat idly on their hands and watched it happen all again, making no attempt at rebuttal. Democrats are on TV every hour of every day. Republicans politicians can't even bring themselves to post on social media in defense of enforcing the law. No matter who the next Republican President is, if he or she attempts to enforce immigration laws, Democrats will turn it into a midterm win. Guaranteed. And that's just one weapon in their playbook.

Republicans don't even know how to deal with the sabotage coming from their own side, let alone unite in a perception war with the Democrat Party.

Before the 2022 midterms inflation had reached a 40 year high, gas was above $5.00 a gallon, more people died from Covid in 2021 than in 2020, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal happened, the border was wide open and Biden was struggling to walk and talk. Still, Democrats only lost a few House seats and even picked up a Senate seat.

With all that happening, why didn't 20 million more Republicans vote during the 2022 midterms than in 2018? If economy matters so much, why was there no red wave? Have an election "expert" answer that one.

People who are playing Monday morning quarterback and criticizing everything Trump has done this time around are so not prepared for or even aware of the war that is being waged. They most likely care. They are ok with losing and many just want to declare all things Trump dead and buried. Maybe next election they will decide to fight back against the incredible machine Democrats. Good luck with that.

The Republicans who are so joyfully celebrating the end of "Trumpism" are in for a rude awakening when he's gone. Trump has increased his support and Republican support in every Presidential and midterm election he has been involved in.

I'm going to lay out in another post some detailed thoughts on the strategies Democrats have used to turn out massive amounts of votes and what Republicans might consider doing in response. It's nothing genius but there is a clear, detailed method to the Democrat madness and nobody seems to be talking about it or even care about it.

Granted, I'm just a guy on X who doesn't know much, but it doesn't hurt to post my thoughts so I will.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: The Iran War & the Midterms

We all agree that Trump knew the Iran War would tank the midterms. Does anyone disagree? I did not think so.

So, since we all stipulate to the above fact, that leaves really only two possible explanations for the war:

1. Trump thought indulging a bunch of neocon advisors on a wholly questionable useless, endless war was worth tanking the midterms.

-or-

2. The intel that Trump had at hand was so compelling that it represented an existential threat to humanity and he had to choose between saving humanity and winning the midterms. (Remember, the Iranian mullahs want nukes so they can use them to precipitate Armageddon and the Twelfth Imam will then miraculously arise from a well in Qom and forcibly unify what is left of humanity under the banner of Shia Islam. These are not rational people.)

I voted for Trump three times because I trust his judgment. I don't think his judgment turned to crap overnight.

I believe history will eventually record that Donald Trump made one of the bravest, most selfless decisions that any world leader has ever made, and history will also record the people who think the accurate narrative is actually #1 above as being complete doofuses.

[chessmate3 @dan25615750]

@_withashley Good! Let him divide the Democratic Party and then they’ll never win again.

[chessmate3 @dan25615750]

The conservative party needs a very strong new leader that is good on social media and can connect with the people. Additionally, stop giving the left ideas. Let them implode and give them rope to hang themselves. @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @RonDeSantis @marcorubio what is the GOP doing!???? Who is leading the RNC!???

[chessmate3 @dan25615750]

@SecRubio @marcorubio + @RonDeSantis 2028!!!!!! @realDonaldTrump

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 THIS: President Trump just shared Joel Pollak's take on last night, and it is the only one worth reading.

"Securing the border is ugly. Fighting Iran is costly. Taking on special interests upsets donors. Backing AI scares people."

"Tonight, Republicans paid the costs. The benefits will be with us for many generations."

Weak Republicans campaign on what is easy. Trump governs on what is NECESSARY.

One bad night does not undo a secure border.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Barack O’bomber bombed so many countries he ran out of bombs. His base didn’t care.

People vote for the brand, not the product.

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

Republicans lost last night, but Democrats were not sworn in.

Pass an immigration bill now that will commence total remigration of all non-citizens and halt all visa applications other than marriage visas.

Pass a flat income tax of 5% and abolish the entire tax code.

Replace Alito and Thomas while we have the majority.

[Simón Levy @SimonLevyMx]

The Real Map of Change in the United States:

1. America is seeing a repeat of 2014, when Barack Obama lost control of both chambers of Congress, and 2006, when George W. Bush faced a similar setback.

2. In 20 of the last 22 midterm elections, the president’s party has lost seats in the House.

3. Impeachment? To remove Trump from office, Democrats would need 67 votes in the Senate. They don’t have them.

4. Democrats would hold 55 Senate seats.

The probability of confirming a worthy successor to Justices Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito during Trump’s presidency would effectively fall to zero.

Even under a hypothetical Republican administration from 2029 to 2033, the prospects could remain extremely limited if Republicans fail to recover enough Senate seats in 2028.

5. Trump still controls the executive branch.

- That means he still controls ICE, border enforcement, and visa policy.

- He still directs foreign policy and retains the authority to pursue federal prosecutions through the Department of Justice, subject to constitutional and legal constraints.

- Democrats will not be able to advance their legislative agenda without overcoming the Senate filibuster and Trump’s veto power.

6. Any major legislation will require bipartisan cooperation or sufficient votes to override a presidential veto.

7. Trump lost the House and Senate, but his immigration, economic, and trade policies remain largely in place.

8. He retains executive authority over immigration enforcement, tariffs within existing statutory limits, and executive actions.

9. Border funding is secured through 2029. Democrats can block new legislation, but they cannot automatically reverse existing tariffs or immigration restrictions simply by controlling Congress.

10. But the most consequential political impact of this defeat may be the battle for the Republican presidential nomination in 2028.

JD Vance’s path to the presidency has become significantly Zero.

The defeat is placing Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis in a new strategic position.

And there is another lesson that Washington has yet to fully understand.

The massive mobilizations from California to Texas, along with the political behavior of immigrant-origin voters, were not adequately understood.

Their electoral impact may have been far greater than traditional political models anticipated.

The political battle over what comes after President Trump has already begun.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now

[Doog @doogadoo11]

Last night is exactly why no President has dealt with Iran before now

We don't reward Presidents for acting in the best long-term interest of the country

We reward them for avoiding difficult decisions if it means we don't have to make any sacrifices during any given 2yr period